An interview with the global rock star and animal welfare campaigner Sir Brian May who is presenting a programme on BBC 2 about Bovine TB and badgers: ‘Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me’.

Car y Mor is a community owned seaweed and shellfish business, which is providing year round work in an area where most jobs are seasonal.

Presented by Caz Graham

Produced by Alun Beach

Ministers in the Holyrood Parliament are being urged to introduce legislation which sets legally binding targets to protect and restore Scotland's nature.

A new variety of fruit the saskatoon, a small purple-blue coloured berry that is native to Canada, has been hailed as a super-berry. It is high in antioxidants, fibre and Vitamin C as well as low in sugar, and now is grown in Scotland.

Growers have just two and a half hours to get their peas from the field to the freezer to stop them from losing quality, so the frozen peas in the shops have been bagged at peak freshness.

Presented by Caz Graham

Produced by Alun Beach

Beef production across the UK is down, but the demand is steady or rising. Should farmers be worried about imports taking over their market?

And what about alternative forms of protein, such as artificial meat? Research into this and other possibilities has been given a boost by the establishment of a new research group, costing £38 million.

And riding along in a combine harvester as it takes in this year’s crop of oilseed rape.

Presented by Anna Hill

Produced by Alun Beach

Farmers flooded earlier in the year are still waiting eight months on for government grants they have claimed to clear up.

It’s a challenging harvest for farmers across the country because of the wet weather, and yields are down.

The National Farmers Union says as many as half of farmers have been affected by fly-tipping, which is a blight on the countryside and can cost farmers a lot of money to clear up.

Presented by Caz Graham

Produced by Alun Beach

Northern Ireland's 'Mama Hen'

Thirteen years ago, Barbara Mladek gave up her full time job as a bank executive to run a hen rescue centre in Northern Ireland. She says it is now her life's mission to rescue and re-home as many battery hens as she can. She is so obsessed with hens, that she has changed her own name by deed poll to 'Mama Hen'.

Barbara also rescues abandoned hens, ducks, geese and turkeys. Her centre is run as a charity and relies entirely on donations. Over the years, she and a small number of volunteers have rescued thouands of hens from slaughter. She opposes battery hen production but has developed a working relationship with several Northern Irish poultry producers to 'rescue' some of their hens when their egg laying value comes to an end.

She knows that the hens she saves are only a tiny proportion of the commercial flocks reared in Northern Ireland's flourishing poultry business. But she says saving even one hen is worth it. It's a seven day a week round the clock commitment, but Barbara says she has no regrets about swapping office life and a guaranteed salary for the fulfillment she has looking after the birds.

Produced and presented by Kathleen Karragher

Businesses that import meat could have to pay up to six times more than they were expecting to get each lorry through border checks; that’s according to the British Meat Processors Association. Since April businesses that import through Dover and the Eurotunnel through Folkestone have been paying what’s called a Common User Charge.

Bracken is a large and very prolific fern, and it can be a big problem for farmers, particularly in the uplands. It eats into grazing land, it harbours ticks and it’s difficult to control, especially since last autumn when Asulox, the only herbicide used to kill it, became permanently withdrawn from the UK and Europe. The Innovative Farmers Network has just started trialling non-chemical approaches to bracken control, one of which involves using cattle to trample it.

Curlew are an iconic and beautiful bird of moorland and wetland areas, but curlew numbers have diminished significantly over the last few decades, placing them firmly on the RSPB’s red list. A project in Wales, funded by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, is using drones to locate nests which can then be protected.

All week on Farming Today we've been visiting rural communities all around the UK's coastline and finding out how they're meeting the challenges they face. Sarah Swadling has been to the Devon village of Beer to find out how they're keeping the community and tourism vibrant.

60 years ago, the first ever BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm programme aired, as an early morning outside broadcast from a family farm in Rutland. To mark the programme’s diamond anniversary, Vernon Harwood has visited that same farm to discover what’s changed over the past six decades.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

Businesses that import meat, both fresh and processed, could have to pay up to six times more than they were expecting to get each lorry through border checks, according to the British Meat Processors Association.

Bracken is a large and very prolific fern, and it can be a big problem for farmers, particularly in the uplands. It eats into grazing land, it harbours ticks and it is difficult to control.

Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland, around 40 miles north of Fort William, used to be a major fishing port but now times have changed and the industry is shrinking.

Presented by Caz Graham

Produced by Alun Beach

Drones are being used to seek out and protect curlew nests from predators and farm work.

The Scottish Government is consulting on ways to simplify the rules on crofting, it hopes to strengthen the rules around croft tenancy, and to get more people onto crofts.

Fishing industry bodies in Cornwall have been working to ensure a younger generation of fishermen have the relevant skills to maintain fishing’s position in the county.

Presented by Anna Hill

Produced by Alun Beach

A university study shows that feeding willow to cattle in the outdoors along with their usual diet of grass can reduce methane emissions significantly.

For many tourism is a vital industry but it is one which can come at a cost.

On one hand, bolstering economic growth, on the other draining life out of a community, with second homes and holiday lets pricing out locals.

And AI or Artificial Intelligence is used in so many aspects of our lives now, and it is also being used more and more to help produce our food on the farm.

Presented by Anna Hill

Produced by Alun Beach

‘Green finance’ has become a bit of a buzz word for conservation groups and land managers who want to tap into private money to fund nature recovery. But there are barriers for smaller farmers who want to get involved. Wiltshire Wildlife Trust has just been awarded nearly a hundred thousand pounds by Natural England to try and tackle that by working with farmers to help them become “investment ready”.

Is this the UK's most romantic field? A farm in Essex has diversified into growing flowers confetti!

And we hear how a lack of homes for local people, an ageing population, poor public services and poverty are difficulties shared by many of the UK's rural coastal communities.

Presented by Caz Graham